What is a thinking routine Project Zero?

What is a thinking routine Project Zero?

Welcome to Project Zero’s Thinking Routines Toolbox. This toolbox highlights Thinking Routines developed across a number of research projects at PZ. A thinking routine is a set of questions or a brief sequence of steps used to scaffold and support student thinking.

How do you cite Project Zero thinking routines?

2017 – Harvard Project Zero – Melbourne Your Bibliography: 2017. Thinking Routines. 1st ed. Melbourne: Harvard Project Zero.

Why do we need to make thinking visible?

Making learning and thinking visible helps transform learning into a collective enterprise where both students and teachers reflect on their thinking and work towards advancing future teaching and learning (17).

What is invisible thinking?

This ability is called “metacognition.” Invisible thinking is made visible when we get our thinking on paper! Therefore, we manipulate the meta! We get kids to not only talk about what they think, but to write about what they think, so they can stand back and analyze what they are learning!

What are the 3 VTS questions?

Questions to Ask during VTS:

• What’s going on in this picture?
• What do you see that makes you say that?
• What more can you find?

What does visible thinking look like?

Visible thinking requires overt, conscious, and deliberate acts by both students and teach- ers. When thinking is visible, participants are aware of their own thoughts and thought processes, as well as those of the individuals with whom they are working.

How is the concept of visible thinking implemented in the classroom?

Students might be asked to make interpretations and inferences with “I See/Hear, I Think, I Wonder”, provide evidence and reasoning with “Claim, Support, Question”, or explore viewpoints with “Perceive, Know, Care About”, to name a few.

What are the components of visible thinking?

To help clarify, I’ve broken down Visual Thinking into 3 main components – depictive, conceptual and affective. Each component brings its own value in a communication context, and when used in concert with each other they create a strong, clear message.

Why Making thinking Visible is important?

By making students’ thinking visible (e.g., having them articulate steps during a thought process), it provides the teacher an opportunity to: determine what students know, believe, feel. identify preconceptions and misconceptions. assess the quality of conceptual understanding.

How do you teach VTS?

Tips for doing VTS During discussion, link responses together—compare and contrast what other students have said. Avoid inserting information. Let students look closely and reason out their responses, rather than discussing the facts.

How can teachers make thinking visible for their students?

Discussions, especially student responses to well-prepared teacher questions, can help shed light on what students understand (knowledge and beliefs) and feel (dispositions). Questioning, when properly done, can promote the thought processes most closely associated with inquiry.

What is a 321 bridge?

This routine asks students to uncover their initial thoughts, ideas, questions and understandings about a topic and then to connect these to new thinking about the topic after they have received some instruction.